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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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That must be fine, for I don't understand a word.
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The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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To inspire love is a woman's greatest ambition, believe me. It's the one thing woman care about and there's no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
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It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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At least it's better to be married than to be dead.
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Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?
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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
Moliere